Fdr's New Deal: A Good Idea

The New Deal implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt was ultimately unsuccessful for the United States. It focused on rebuilding the country to rise above the Great Depression and making sure that the employment rate increased in order to do so. The negatives that resulted from the New Deal include giving the Federal US Government too much power, creating the Social Security Act, and failing to complete its central mission, which was to get the United States out of the Depression.

The New Deal was good because it provided Americans with hope, jobs, and government assistance during a time when American citizens could not help themselves. The Great Depression caused the US to fall apart economically, and the New Deal was put in place to try to fix the economy. President Roosevelt thought this was the best way to fix the economy, and it was. But that doesn’t mean it was perfect. It also doesn’t mean it worked. While many good things came from the New Deal, many bad things came out as well. But the good outweighed the bad, and the New Deal began the journey out of the Great Depression.

Franklin D Roosevelt jumped into action to save the economy the 1930s. In Doc A, he said “we are giving opportunity of employment to one-quarter of a million of the unemployed, especially the young men…” (Doc A). This shows that the New Deal created jobs so people could get paid and ended the Depression. In Doc E, it shows that in 1937, the unemployment rate had increased down to 9.1% compared to the 22.5% it was before FDR took office (Doc E). This shows that the New Deal succeeded in providing work. Besides providing jobs, the New Deal gave Americans faith in their government.

Imagine coming home every day. You have no money or food to give to your three young, starving children. You have been jobless for the last three but you president claims he is giving all the unemployed. During the 1930’s the United States went through a Great Depression after the stock market crashed. The stock market caused almost 15 million American to be unemployed so Franklin D. Roosevelt made the New Deal. The New Deal was a series of programs to end the Great Depression. Some people still argue that the New Deal was a Good Deal. The new deal was a Bad Deal. It didn’t help all of the unemployed, it keep the US in debt and it gave FDR too much power.

The 1930’s were one of the most difficult times in American history. It was the time of the Great Depression. Millions of Americans suffered hardships as the economy was in a free fall. Many Americans were unemployed and lost almost everything they had owned. In 1932, America realized it was time for a change, and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a landslide vote. Roosevelt promised to help end the depression and with his New Deal. The New Deal was Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression. Through increased government spending, FDR enacted numerous public works programs in an effort to simulate the economy. The New Deal’s “alphabet soup” (this was the nickname for the numerous programs FDR enacted) was FDR’s plan to people

The New Deal was not a good deal. It interfered with the economic lives of American people and did not help the United States out of the Great Depression. The government was getting too much power and congress was approving this. Furthermore, the efforts that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put in to relieve the poor made our national debt skyrocket and did not help us come out of the Great Depression. We were not truly out of the depression until the 1940s, during World War II when more jobs were created.

The New Deal help created jobs and money to a lot of people in the 1930s. The New Deal created jobs by “creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide jobs for unemployed people” (history.com/topics/new-deal). This administration gave jobs to millions

The New Deal did more than just bring jobs, it helped improve individuals lives and the way they were able to live. We could go on and on talking about each legislation and what it did for the people, but we can conclude that these pieces of legislation helped the United States get out one of the most difficult times in history. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put the United States on his back and guided them through a vicious jungle. These legislations set a new standard of operation for the government that FDR did not intend it to be. That standard would be the increase of control within the White House in the influence of legislation, as well as the continued measurement of the first 100 days of a new President’s term, which has been a unique measurement.

Though the New Deal succeeded in helping people, it largely failed in helping the economy. The National Recovery Administration interfered with the natural workings of the market by setting prices and wages, and fostered cartels rather than supporting small businesses. These cartels set wages above the market rate, which makes labor more expensive and depresses employment. High prices and a high cost of labor also means that the unemployed are both less likely to be hired and also forced to confront a higher cost of living. These measures, when combined with Roosevelt’s other new labor laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act and Wagner Act, were instrumental in supporting his program’s relief efforts and helping the workers, but they didn’t work towards supporting the business community. After Roosevelt reduced federal spending on some jobs-creation projects and increased taxes in 1937, the economy entered another recession and unemployment rose again, demonstrating that the employment created by his New Deal

Once the stock market crashed millions of people lost their jobs and production slowed down. The government provided relief for unemployed people by giving those jobs. They were temporary jobs but at the time they did lower the employment rate. Even though jobs were given the decreased rate did not last too long. As stated in Document J “Unemployment spiked in early 1920s, then peaked in 1933, and then rose again in 1937-38”. This quote shows that the New deal was a temporary relief for the country but it wasn’t everlasting. The government’s role was to provide millions of jobs for

Based on the Unemployment Statistics by Gene Smiley, we can see that the First New Deal did help bring the unemployment rate down, as did the Second Deal. In fact, the total decrease during those time periods was 11.5 percent. This is a great improvement, but it was not permanent. When the Second New Deal ended after 1937, the unemployment rate skyrocketed once again, increasing from 9.1 percent to 12.3 percent (Smiley). The New Deal could never hold its own weight, so why could it handle the collapsing economy as well? The answer is that it could not, not for a long period of time at least. It would take 2 more years to bring the unemployment rate near where it was at the end of the Second New Deal programs, and another year after that to bring the rate below the 9.1 percent in 1937 (Smiley). After the 5 years of work and struggle that the First and Second New Deals went through, after 5 years of planning for success and stability in the years to come, the barrier collapsed, and that work and time and effort and planning, all of it, was gone in an

At the peak of the Great Depression in 1932 the unemployment rate stood at 25 percent and the Dow Jones Average sunk to a mere 34, indicating severe economic distress.1 Millions of individuals were starving on the streets and billions of dollars were lost in the stock market. When Franklin Roosevelt released the New Deal in 1933, a plan to provide relief, reform, and recovery to the distressed country, Americans were in dire need of relief. Recognizing that something had to be done quickly, President FDR implemented a series of programs to immediately mitigate the effects of the Depression. By focusing on programs to aid business and labor, farmers, housing and homeowners, banks and the stock market, and the youth of America, FDR attempted to provide the immediate relief from the Great Depression that America so desperately needed. Although some of the programs in the New Deal were more successful than others, they succeeded as a whole in providing the short-term relief that America needed to survive the Great Depression.

The next step in FDRs New Deal is recovery. The objective of the National Recovery Administration was to create codes for businesses to follow. These codes would then help to provide minimum wages for employees, restrict the number of hours worked to prevent over time and set prices and production levels. The goal was to fix the American economy by limiting competition, rising power purchased by the consumer and hiring unemployed workers back to work for them once more. By mid-1933, the new agency achieved the voluntary acceptance by nearly 600 industries of new codes. The new codes covered nearly 30 million workers. One problem was that the chief administrator was chosen because of his well-known service in the WIB during World War I. Sadly,

In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, the citizens of the United States had possessed sufficient time to realize that they could no longer be proud, but they must take anything they could get. Therefore, the programs set up by FDR’s New Deal program were perfect for the country at the time. These programs helped the people directly, providing relief, recovery, and reform. FDR based his plans on the philosophy of Keynesian economics, where the government spends money to make money. The government gave money and jobs to those in need, who in turn, had money to spend in the marketplace. The demand for products increased, and businesses were able to hire more workers and produce more products, as well as pay more money in taxes. FDR’s plans worked because they gave money not to those who would take advantage of the government, but to those who would use it in the way the government intended it to be used. During FDR’s first term in office alone, the unemployment rate dropped 4%. Because of FDR’s success in bringing the country out of the Depression, I give him an A.

These political figures of the early 20th century pushed to destroy Roosevelt’s New Deal while attempting to influence upcoming presidential elections. Having similar plans in combining diffuse local conservatism and radicalism, the two began pushing reform to create further government control, a positive outlook on the forming of unions, and redistribution of wealth across America. Through his book’s eleven chapters, Brinkley defends the result of Long and Coughlin’s presence and their intentions to make a positive effect in the development of future American policy. Brinkley provides the understanding of the demagogic public figures’ ideologies and their relationship with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Voices of Protest.